The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-03

Nv ucS' S"Ss ANU HUM fcaI ~Aaeidtu
Land. evidently Il continuation ives
!. ward Of Palmer's Land. alread
known. and Graham's Land. subst
quently discovered. south from til
southern point of America Mex
year, to the east of Enderby Land
Kemp discovered the patch 10 whicl
his name is attached.
In lS3S39 Ba lleny cruised anout il
the neighborhood of the Antarctic cir
Gle to the south of New ZealNnd ant
Australia, discovering Il few patchct
on the circle, ono of which. In lis
deg. so min., is known as Sabrin:
Land. About the time that Balleny
was pursuing his discoveries, a French
expedition under Dumont d'Urville,
and the famous American expedition
under Wilkes, were doing battle with
the ice in the same quarter. In tho
beginning of 1883 the former gave the
name of Louis Philippe Land to north
east extension of Palmer's Land. with
heights rising to between 1000 and
5000 feet. Two years later to the
south Of Australia, in the region ex~
plored by Ballcny. D'Urville added
two other patches 10 those fiieady
known, which he named Adele i.aad
and Clairie Land. At the end OF
March. 1889. Wilkes, with one of his
four vessels, got as far south as 70
deg. to 100 deg. west. not tar from
Cooks turthest. In January of next
year, starting from Sydney south
wards, Wilkes approached Adele
Land, and sailing eastward as far as
50 deg. east found a coast girt by a
wall of ice $50 to 200 feet high. behind
which were mountains rising to q
height of 5000 feet, Wilkes travelled
n stretch of 1900 miles, and es.
tablished tie probability of almost
continuous land all along the circle,
increasing the likelihood of the exist
ence of a great mass Of land in these
Moreover, the observations
made by Wilkes and his officers were
Of the greatest value to science.
1t was mainly to fill up the absolute
in our knowledge of the ter
magnetism of the South Polar
'egions that the British Government
'ent out a well-equipped expedition
lnder Captain James Ross, the dis.
of the magnetic pole of the
forth, The expeditions, which includ.
d on its scientific staff DR.. (now sir)
Hooker. sailed in the two
and unfortunate ships Erebus
nd Terror, and started from Hobart ,
own in November. 1910. to attack r,
he formidable barriers which had
ailled so many previous expeditions.
nto the history Of this famous expc-
ition we need not enter Suffice it to -,
that in his gallant attempt, directly :
outh of New Zealand, Ross came upon
md in Il deg. Is min. which he fol- d
WED for nearly eight degrees further, y
5 character and features amply re- c
arding all trouble and suffering. y
outh Victoria Land was found to have o
a active volcano (Mount Erebus) 12,- u
70 feet high. and an extinct volcano, s
perfect pyramid Of snow (thc Ter h
ny, rising even higher. Other great |
.ountains cover this Land of perpetual e
.ow and ice, and far beyond the wall $,
ice two hundred feet high, which II
'rred all further advance, mountain =,
AXIS were described, all covered with n
lnthe beginningo of 1912, east from I,
.ctoria Land (16l deg, u min. west), le
'ss reached his highest, south lati. ~
dc Is deg. 9 min. so see, further adj. te
nee being stopped by q wall of ice, %
t unmistakable signs of land being +
'covered. On the opposite side OF II
circle, in the beginning of 1913, j,
aid the greatest difficulties and dam N
rs from the ice, the two plucky ships il
nctratcd rs far south rs Il deg. e,
min. in If dec. so min. west longi- q,
tie. The gains to all departments of lc
encc made by this expedition were h,
ormous; it may be regarded as ono dc
the great glories of our country. 81
G Challenger just got beyond the ar
in 50 deg. east in 1874, and h,
md All open, navigable sea. Al. ri
its contributions to 4 knowl. h,
&c of ice forms and Antarctic biolo. nj
are Of high Importance, it was not So
business of the expedition to seek ba
new lands. al
Any new expedition to the Antarctic e.,
'uid be planned with the creates, W,
e. Ii should be remembered that he
that has hitherto b cen done has fo,
N with sailing vessels; now that we III
re steam the task of exploration Ia,
'uid be much easier. 1t would be dr
necessary for q party to iii
lter at as high u latitude rs posi- If
aud two vessls at least would be pa
nirod. -L0H10D Times. 49,,
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Beatrice and Her Mother, -
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